Exercise # 3: Editing Your Page
(Still in the "Classroom" site)
- Open your newly created page
- Click the "Edit" tab
- Change some of your text and click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.
- Click the "Edit" tab again. Highlight a word in your text and click the "insert link" button (chain link icon). This opens up a dialog box.
- Click the "External" radio button and type in www.ucsc.edu after the https://
- Insert title of the link: "UCSC Home Page"
- Click "Insert". This closes the window
- Click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.
Inserting a "Mail To" Link
- Click the "Edit" tab again.
- Highlight a word in your text and click the "Insert link" button (chain link icon). This opens up a dialog box
- Click the "External" radio button, delete the "https://" and type in "mailto:xxxxx@ucsc.edu"
- Click "Insert"
- Click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.
Inserting a Banner Image
- Click the "Edit" tab
- Go to the Banner Image box and click the browse button icon. This opens a window. Browse to "images" --> "sample-images-for-training" --> "left-nav-page-banners" and select an image
- Click "Confirm"
- Enter a Banner Image Caption and Alt Text (required for all images)
- Click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.
Inserting an Image Using the WYSIWYG Editor
- Click the "Edit" tab.
- Go to the Main Content box.
- Position cursor where you want to insert an image and click the "Insert/edit image" button (little tree). This will open a dialog box.
- Browse to "sample-images-for-training" --> "
wysiwyg -images" and select an image - Type in an alternate text (required for all images) and Click "Insert"
- Click "Preview Draft" to view your changes and then "Submit" to save.